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What are the important textual touchstones in your life?

Positive discipline can teach students self-respect and empathy.

Contemplation guides educators to action. Active educators lead students to compassion.

I went to Columbine. And I’m proud of my community.

This teacher looks forward to a time when teachers have the freedom to be role models for their students.

A couple of years ago, I had a run-in with a parent. He had developed the habit of coming into school before the end of the day, standing outside the door of our classroom and motioning impatiently for his son, Victor, to hurry up. When I requested that he wait outside the building for his son to be dismissed, he became irate, yelled at me and angrily pulled his son out of class.

When this teacher asked newly-minted sixth-graders how they want to treat themselves, others and their communities during middle school, paper airplanes made for a creative way for these students to offer answers.